News
- Starting in August, the BS degree in chemical and biological engineering (CBEN) will be renamed biological engineering (BIEN).
- Charge your laptop in a minute or your EV in 10? Supercapacitors can help; new research offers cluesPublished in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, researchers in Ankur Gupta’s lab are working on improving supercapacitors for energy storage by studying how they store energy at the nanoscale.
- Congratulations to all our Spring 2024 graduates! We're thrilled to celebrate the success of our 17 PhDs, 17 MS and 86 BS students! View our photos from the chemical and biological engineering spring 2024 graduation.
- Sanjeev Redkar (PhD ChemEngr’94) received the 2024 Distinguished Engineering Alumni award for his commitment to community service and educating future leaders and entrepreneurs while promoting innovation.
- Wyatt Shields has been honored with a 2024 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar award for his contributions to teaching and research on medical microrobots, self-propelled miniature robots that one day might deliver prescription drugs to hard-to-reach places inside the human body.
- Ten graduate students and one post doctoral researcher were recognized in 2024 with Chemical and Biological Engineering Department awards.
- Ben Mousseau (ChemBio’16) is grateful for the mentors who guided him. Now a global supply manager at Tesla, Mousseau has been giving back to the ChBE department by mentoring students through the department’s Alumni Student Mentor Program.Â
- Eight graduating seniors from the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering were honored with 10 Graduating Student Awards from the College of Engineering and Applied Science this year.
- Fifteen undergraduate students were recognized in 2024 with Chemical and Biological Engineering Department awards.
- Chemical and Biological Engineering students Claire Ely and Delaney McNally are among 438 U.S. college students awarded 2024 Goldwater Scholarships, which reward sophomores and juniors who are conducting research in math, science and engineering.